Improved carpet-fastener



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Floors; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof', reference being had to the accompanying drawing, Aforming a portion of this specification, in which- Figure l is a plan or top view.

Figure 2 is an edge view.`

' Figure 3 is an inverted plan view.

Similar letters of reference'indicate corresponding parts in all the iigures.

The object of my invention is to enable carpets to be properly fastened to doors without the trouble and annoyance usually experienced from the use of tacks or nails; and A It consists in a novel mechanical device, whereby such object ris eifectually secured.

To enable others to understand the nature of my invention, I will proceed to describe it with reference Vto the drawings.

In carrying out my invention, I take a strip of sheet# steel, brass, or equivalent elastic material, say onehalf inch in width,.and b'end it into the form indicated more clearly in fig. 2, the upper part A beingbent or bound over one of the end-portlons.

At 'a little space frm its extremity, this upper part A is provided with any desired number of points', or studs a. Y

These `studs pass down through holes, or openings c, provided below them, in the corresponding lower part of thedevice.

Atthe opposite, or single end of the device, are two downwardly-projecting spurs, b.

I fasten the devices, thus constructed, at the edges ofthe door on which'the carpet is to be placed.

This A'fastening of the devices in position is done by means of nails or tacks, provided for the purpose, and driven, one or more to each device, through nail-holes f, formedin the latter, for the purpose ii'idicated. The folded end of the device is, of course, placed next to the wall.

The upper part A of the device being raised, the` adjacent portion of the sel'vage of the carpet is placed underneath it, and .the part A being liberated, is pressed downward, by its own elasticity, upon the selvage, and Athe points a, passing quito through the selvage, which they are enabled to do by the holes c underneath thems ecurely hold or retain the selvage, and, ofcourse, the contiguous part' of the carpet, to the floor,- to which the device is itself attached, as hereinbefore described.`

The devices may be made of various sizes, as may be desired, may be painted of different colors, to correspond with the lcolors of thecarpet, and, beingl left in position, may constitute a permanent fixture of the room, all the inconvenience arising frorn'the use of tacks or nails, in the ordinary manner, being wholly obviated, inasmuch as the carpet vmay be readily detached and replaced, by simply lifting the upper part A of the device,'to bring the holding-studs a from the carpet, or to permit the selvage ofthe latter to be brought under such part A, asthe case may be.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Paten-t, is The carpet-fastening device, composed of the elastic metallic strip, bent and shaped in the manner described, and furnished with the points, or studs a, the

holding-studs b,openings c, and nail-holesv f, all arranged and operating in the manner herein set forth.

J. V. 0. SMITH.-

' Witnesses:

WM. E.LYON, Jes. H. BURR. 

